 
In 2002, material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers held about 4 million jobs,
distributed among detailed occupations as follows.
| Stock clerks and order fillers |
1,628,000 |
| Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks |
803,000 |
| Postal service mail carriers |
334,000 |
| Production, planning, and expediting clerks |
288,000 |
| Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators |
253,000 |
| Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance |
170,000 |
| Couriers and messengers |
132,000 |
| Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers |
92,000 |
| Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping |
81,000 |
| Postal service clerks |
77,000 |
| Cargo and freight agents |
59,000 |
| Meter readers, utilities |
54,000 |
| All other material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers |
34,000 |
About 86 percent of material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing jobs were in the
service-providing sector. Most of the rest were in manufacturing. Although workers in these jobs are
found throughout the country, most work near population centers where retail stores, warehouses,
factories, and large communications centers are concentrated.
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